Combined femoral and sciatic nerve blocks for lower limb anaesthesia in anticoagulated patients with severe cardiac valvular lesions

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-238

  Tantry, Thrivikrama Padur ^a   Kadam, Dinesh ^a   Shetty, Pramal ^a   Bhandary, Sanath ^a  

^a A J INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Lower limb anaesthesia; Peripheral nerve blocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857880483     PISSN: 00195049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.65372     Document Type: Article

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